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Starfish are walking heads with their buttholes pointed to the sky, study reveals

While the cartoon starfish Patrick Star from "SpongeBob Squarepants" is famously stupid, his real-life counterpart in science may in fact be all head. This at least is the conclusion of a landmark ...
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Starfish don’t have arms — their body is mostly made up of their head, study finds

Despite what it looks like, researchers found recently that starfish don’t have limbs that are hugging the surface they touch — the characteristic starfish is actually mostly “just a head.” What did ...
Iowa Public Radio

This week in science: Melting arctic ice, sea star anatomy and sleep deprived mice

Time now for our science news roundup from our friends at NPR's Short Wave podcast. Aaron Scott and Regina Barber, welcome back. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Hi, Ari. AARON SCOTT, BYLINE: Thank you, Ari.
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I cut a starfish in half! What’s inside? 🤔

Explore the interior of a giant starfish as we cut it in half with a waterjet. Surprisingly, the starfish's anatomy features ...